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(NOTE I have not seen animatrix so if differs in structure from ldr or is also horny, eff you i dont care, i like the joke!) This is an animation anthology series from Netflix that adapts various short stories into short videos (youtube length, I'd characterize it). This is also decidedly :nsfw: with cg boobs, sex, violence, rape, and what have you and I'll paraphrase an astute couch chat poster by saying this seems an exercise by a netflix exec into getting his commissioned cgi boobie art published as a series. However, it is extremely Cool and Good, in my humble opinion, and while I haven't yet finished all of the shorts I plan to soon. e: Here's a really loving lazy episode guide     
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Mar 17, 2019 04:02
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Show rules. It was so weird when one of them the CGI is so loving good and you're like "holy poo poo that's so real looking" and it's Topher Grace and whoops it's live-action.
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Mar 17, 2019 04:12
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Thank you for making this thread! I'm watching them in order so I'm on Good Hunting (episode 8) right now. I love animation and love anthology series so I'm glad Netflix made this. So far I have to say that Beyond the Aguila Rift looked amazing, especially Greta. The amount of breast in here is funny but they show some penises too if you're curious.
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Mar 17, 2019 04:37
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10 eps in and already two rape-and-revenge stories. I think maybe the assorted short makers didn't compare notes ahead of time. PostNouveau posted:Show rules. I think we've officially arrived at the point where we officially can't trust our eyes anymore.
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Mar 17, 2019 06:30
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Madurai posted:10 eps in and already two rape-and-revenge stories. I think maybe the assorted short makers didn't compare notes ahead of time. There are two zerg rush episodes too
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Mar 17, 2019 06:40
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Madurai posted:10 eps in and already two rape-and-revenge stories. I think maybe the assorted short makers didn't compare notes ahead of time. I was thrown off for a second at the start of the 'Lucky 13' episode, because my brain couldn't immediately decide if Samira Wiley was real or CGI. The repetition of some of the stories was a little meh. Fish Night was probably my favorite of all the shorts. I think the 'worst' was Suits because it was just Pacific Rim, but on a farm. E: Three Robots was good too, and Soul Sucker has its moments.
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Mar 17, 2019 07:27
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PostNouveau posted:Show rules. Number 7?
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Mar 17, 2019 07:54
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Milo and POTUS posted:Number 7? The icebox one
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Mar 17, 2019 07:56
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I thought fish night was one of the weaker shorts along with the dump, alternate histories, and blindspot. Liked Ice Age a lot though.
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Mar 17, 2019 07:58
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PostNouveau posted:The icebox one That's goo because I'm only up to 7 and while I can make it out at most points every once and a while I forget it
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Mar 17, 2019 07:59
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Milo and POTUS posted:That's goo because I'm only up to 7 and while I can make it out at most points every once and a while I forget it Wait until you get to episode 13
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Mar 17, 2019 08:00
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Apparently, people are getting the episodes in different orders, so "episode 7" means different things for different people.
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Mar 17, 2019 08:36
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In that case, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9561862/episodes?season=1&ref_=tt_eps_sn_1
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Mar 17, 2019 08:56
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Milo and POTUS posted:In that case, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9561862/episodes?season=1&ref_=tt_eps_sn_1 That matches with my experience, but I have been reading the resetera thread, and there is a ton of people saying they got a different ordering. It might be tied to region, in which case IMDB could be showing your local ordering. For the record, my first episodes are Sonnie's edge, Three Robots and The Witness. Is anyone else getting a different ordering?
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Mar 17, 2019 09:20
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The credits tell me Ivrina, Sonnie's foul mouthed techie, is the mom from Black Lightning but my brain cannot accept it.
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Mar 17, 2019 09:36
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Currently watching the yogurt one. They're definitely a lesson in that sometimes less is more; three Robots was brilliant but would have been tiring if it had ended up as a 90 minute plus movie.
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Mar 17, 2019 09:43
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None of them was bad; too 3 for me were 3 robots, ice age and Aquila rift. Good Hunting was pretty awesome too, and living between Beijing and HK made it pretty awesome.
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Mar 17, 2019 10:44
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PostNouveau posted:Show rules. "The Witness" tripped my uncanny valley alarm, because they're doing that Into The Spiderverse intentional "undercranking frame rate" but their clothing and bodies were way too real, like it felt like they were actual actors with their faces digitally replaced with slightly cartoon faces. The CGI in "Beyond The Aquila Rift" was way too good. The humans in "Sonnie's Edge" were very "video game cutscene" quality but good current-gen cutscene quality, but the focus is really not them, but the fighting beasts. I had to pause after "Good Hunting" but I'll try to finish up later today.
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Mar 17, 2019 12:04
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Just finished it, and yeah it was good. A bit on the edgy side for some, but generally fun. This shot from Beyond the Aquila Rift was pretty loving inspired: https://i.imgur.com/GaZrENt.mp4 (Copypaste the link into a new window, embedding it would break tables. Also, spoilers.) Also, Gary is the best 
Perestroika fucked around with this message at 13:09 on Mar 17, 2019 |
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Mar 17, 2019 13:07
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Pablo Bluth posted:Currently watching the yogurt one. They're definitely a lesson in that sometimes less is more; three Robots was brilliant but would have been tiring if it had ended up as a 90 minute plus movie. Yeah I was thinking about that while watching Good Hunting. They sold how much it sucks to live under an imperial power so quickly. It's a big strength of the show that each episode is 15 minutes or less
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Mar 17, 2019 17:16
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I did the Johnny-Knoxville-in-pain laugh at the arm one because otherwise I'd probably be sick otherwise
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Mar 17, 2019 18:44
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Perestroika posted:Just finished it, and yeah it was good. A bit on the edgy side for some, but generally fun. This shot from Beyond the Aquila Rift was pretty loving inspired: It was an excellent misdirect. Also, concur on Gary.
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Mar 17, 2019 18:48
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It's been bugging me, but where did I get the robutts joke from? Is it an old long forgotten in joke from these forums? I know I didn't spontaneously come up with the pun; I'm not creative in the slightest.
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Mar 17, 2019 18:51
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That's how Dr Zoidberg from hit animated sci fi comedy Futurama says robot
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Mar 17, 2019 18:56
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Milo and POTUS posted:That's how Dr Zoidberg from hit animated sci fi comedy Futurama says robot Ahhh, that sounds about right. Also, I wish they had a making off featurette thing going over the techniques they used to animate things and the inspirations for the styles and what they were adapting. Like, surely the witness was shot for real and then rotoscoped/CGed.
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Mar 17, 2019 20:00
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I enjoyed the space station one and if they hadn't SPOKEN I'd have believed they'd be real but man there's just something proper "off" about their mouths. Give it like 5 years and I feel like it'll be spot on.
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Mar 17, 2019 20:11
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Incidentally have I mentioned how much I loving love scifi and cyperpunk in particular?
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Mar 17, 2019 20:18
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Just binged all the episodes, lots of gaming 3d throwbacks on the studio names in the credits. Lucky 13 was made by Sony Imageworks so i'm not surprised about being very good quality wise(their Aramaki 3d movies were always top notch on the tecnical side after all), blur did a top job but their shorts(sonnie's edge,shapeshifters and suits) were sorta flat story wise, the two shorts made by blow studios(three robots and yogurt) were average quality wise but had the best scripts, the one and a half made by digic(some part of ice age and secret war) was good too. Overall only blindspot was below average, so thumbs up! Like some of the other posters I concur about this kind of product being best on short episodes instead of attempting to fill it up to 45 let alone one full feature. I do honestly hope about another season if they can keep this quality up.
SlowBloke fucked around with this message at 20:33 on Mar 17, 2019 |
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Mar 17, 2019 20:30
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Three Robots was my favorite. So much personality in those little bots, especially in the little guy. And the character introduced near the end. The animation and environments were amazing, there's so many little details in the post-apocalyptic city you only see on a rewatch. Suits was great. Someone in the streaming thread said it's closest in style to Starcraft, and I agree. It'd make a great video game. Farming sim/base defense.
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Mar 17, 2019 21:09
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I watched all the episodes and it was pretty good and I overall enjoyed it, However, I thought the stories were rather uninspired and mostly there to showcase the animation studios, and how far 3D animations have come since, like, Reboot. I mean, one of the stories was just a retelling of a level of Megaman Zero
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Mar 17, 2019 21:18
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LifeLynx posted:Three Robots was my favorite. So much personality in those little bots, especially in the little guy. And the character introduced near the end. The animation and environments were amazing, there's so many little details in the post-apocalyptic city you only see on a rewatch. I found three robots really trite and boring. Super pretty but it was just....obvious? I don't know. Now they can start doing this sort of animation for modern day Sci fi stories instead of old style ones, I'd be excited to see what happens with it.
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Mar 17, 2019 21:32
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Solar Tornado posted:I watched all the episodes and it was pretty good and I overall enjoyed it, this is basically how i felt. i understand they're shorts so they cant have a ton of plot but i definitely felt like most of them were someone's final for 3d animation class. and also that one of the conditions of acceptance was to show dick and/or vagina
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Mar 17, 2019 21:54
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MY INEVITABLE DEBT posted:and also that one of the conditions of acceptance was to show dick and/or vagina That was the funniest part. Someone making these one handed. Entire teams of animators taking twice as long as usual.
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Mar 17, 2019 22:19
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Draculas uncircumsized flaccid but obviously large peen
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Mar 17, 2019 22:20
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I cried at Zima Blue. There's a lot of poetry going on in that but the concept of Zima realizing he was originally being a pool-cleaning robot, being more and more upgraded until he becomes "human" and starting this whole art revolution thing as a means of understanding his place in the universe, and ending his life going back to the beginning and cleaning the same pool one last time as a final hurrah touched me in ways that none of the other shorts did. Despite being the lowest score on IMDB, I actually liked The Dump. A lot of them felt like they were self-contained, but I wish Fish Night had gone along a bit more. I did feel like there was a whole lot of repetition in the plots of the shorts going on, especially "zerg rush/final stand" with Suits, Sucker Of Souls, and The Secret War (Maybe Lucky 13, but I consider that a bit different than those three). I think I'd be a bit more forgiving if the monsters didn't look the same. Perestroika posted:Just finished it, and yeah it was good. A bit on the edgy side for some, but generally fun. This shot from Beyond the Aquila Rift was pretty loving inspired: Oh yeah, for Aquila Rift, when they do the close-up on "Greta", I can't help but look at the mouth as being modelled off a Fleshlight in action. It's not even a vagina, just an orifice Edit: holy poo poo the forums kept auto-adding a url so I deleted it. Watermelon Daiquiri posted:Draculas uncircumsized flaccid but obviously large peen There's a lot of hanging dong in this.
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Mar 17, 2019 22:43
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Watermelon Daiquiri posted:Draculas uncircumsized flaccid but obviously large peen It made a good target. Lot of large peens in these shorts though
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Mar 17, 2019 23:03
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Compensating for their length, no doubt! To contribute to the discussion, so far Good Hunting is probably the highlight of the episodes and I have a soft spot for Suits. The rest I appear to have contrary opinions to the good episodes: I liked Sonnie's Edge, Three Robots wasn't interesting to me and Yogurt was far too predictable given the current political atmosphere. Many of them spend too much time on world-building and not enough time developing the story. Beyond Aquila Rift is notable for this given that it introduces Greta sketchily as a person that left his life decades ago, then it was straight to loving like they were doing it daily. It made the reveal more effective, I guess, but what they say and what they do did not always connect. Sage Grimm fucked around with this message at 01:54 on Mar 18, 2019 |
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Mar 18, 2019 01:32
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Young Freud posted:There's a lot of hanging dong in this. The show was the uncanny valley meets CGI dongs all over creation. Would recommend this series even it's sort of hit and miss for the episodes. Gaunab posted:I thought fish night was one of the weaker shorts along with the dump, alternate histories, and blindspot. Liked Ice Age a lot though. Fish Night was in the cool visual but uninteresting story bucket similar to The Witness.
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Mar 18, 2019 02:02
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So awesome to see Sonnie's Edge on screen! Stuck with me ever since I read it like 15 years ago or something. Almost all of these were great but Zima Blue is totally amazing and Aquila Ridge is...something else
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HBO- Let's spend our whole Game of Thrones budget on CGI Dragons and Zombies Netflix- Let's spend the money on bouncing CGI plot related dongs Also the large amount of visual variation is due to how the series used different companies for the production side of things. My picks Best episodes if I had to pick 5: -Sonnie -Beyond the Aquila Rift -Good Hunting -Zima Blue -The Secret War Awesome visually but story not so much -Fish Night -The Witness etalian fucked around with this message at 02:07 on Mar 18, 2019 |
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